Object Exchange Across Heterogeneous Information Sources

We address the problem of providing integrated access to diverse and dynamic information sources. We explain how this problem di ers from the traditional database integration problem and we focus on one aspect of the information integration problem, namely information exchange. We de ne an object-based information exchange model and a corresponding query language that we believe are well suited for integration of diverse information sources. We describe how the model and language have been used to integrate heterogeneous bibliographic information sources. We also describe two general-purpose libraries we have implemented for object exchange between clients and servers.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1995
• Where: ICDE
• Authors: Yannis Papakonstantinou, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jennifer Widom
• Keywords: Database, Database Integration Problem, ICDE 1995, Information Integration Problem, Problem Di Ers